Thank you this is some really great feedback. I'm going to widen the path and try cutting away the trees behind the building to add contrast and see if that leads the eye better. I think the tutorial I watched was pretty good for not skipping stuff but when he was messing around with shadow and colour values he knew…
The tutorial looks fine to me, but he uses some heavy local exposure to brighten the landscape compared to the sky in the first bit. That's not realistic in the sense of how cameras work (and you'll notice it looks a bit strange when he looks up) but a valid artistic decision. Photographers might do the same with all kinds…